It used to be that telephones were just for making calls and only Bill Gates and NASA had computers. These days, however, technology has become increasingly affordable, mobile, and handheld. With smartphones, such as the iPhone and Android, and Apple’s iPad, it is easier than ever to access and transmit information from wherever you are.
With that in mind, here are 5 real-estate related apps to boost your mobility and your efficiency …
Realtor.com Real Estate Search: This iPhone app allows you to search homes for sale, open houses, and nearby rentals. It also allows you to save listings, add notes to them, and email them or share them with clients over your social network. It accesses more than four million listings, with multiple photos, property details and open house information. Best of all, it updates every 15 minutes.
Evernote: Also for the iPhone, this application creates notes, photos, and voice memos and makes them accessible from your phone, computer, and the Web.
Dictionary of Real-Estate Terms: This Android app is the most comprehensive of its kind and provides an easy-to-use reference guide you can suggest to your clients or use yourself.
Remember The Milk: Available for both iPhone and Android, the Remember the Milk app is just what it sounds like. Not only does it make organizing and managing tasks easy and quick, it also sends you reminders via email, text message, or instant messenger. Add things to your to-do list with their Quick Add function and use the map to plan out the best way to be everywhere at once.
Open Home Pro: This iPad app provides a high-tech way to collect email addresses, phone numbers, and info about visitors to your open house. It also automatically emails them a thank you and sends you their contact and other info.
More on iPhone, iPad, and Android apps here, here, here, here, and here.
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I found this information helpful, and will look at the Open House app you suggest.
Have a great day from Oakville Ontario
Nolan
Jason I think it all boils down to if the agent gets it or not. For agents that don’t get it, they’ll never spend money on phoots because they see it as taking money away from their commissions. For agents that DO get it, they pay for phoots on all listings, regardless of listing price, because they know that helps set them apart from the competition. When you distinguish yourself from your peers, you end up building up your brand and are able to leverage your marketing to obtain new listings. A very small number of realtors get this, and they find themselves winning listings by showing sellers their marketing efforts are top notch. In the end, this results in more listings, happier clients, and more sales (which means an increase in commissions).They say 1% of realtors do 99% of the business, and there’s a reason for that: they know what they are doing and they let professionals handle things they themselves shouldn’t be doing (like photography).
Hi. I would also like to suggest Walkscore – which measures the walkability of any address and shows amenities nearby like shops, parks, transit, etc. I find it comes in handy during Open Houses or even property tours.
Cheers,
Q
Thanks for the mention of Open Home Pro. Be sure to join the beta for new release dropping next month. There is a small link at the top of the Open Home Pro homepage.
Andrew Machado
I love the iHandy Carpenter. It is great for seeing if the floor or a wall is level or not. Two other apps I can’t live without are GasBuddy and flashlight.
I would also like to make a suggestion; FileLinx.
Send, Fetch,and Print to and from your PC with your Android. No cloud servers, so its private. No extra fees either. It works through WiFi,3G/4G so it does not matter where you are.